MSNBC writer Benjy Sarlin noted that McCain’s one to talk, given he once had a late evening rendezvous with former Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi.

McCain has since told CNN’s Candy Crowley that his comments were a “gross exaggeration” of reality and “over the top.” But still, he insists it’s just not good form to shake the hand of someone who violates human rights.

While that was going on, North Carolina state Sen. Bob Rucho took to Twitter on Sunday, saying Obamacare or the Affordable Care act has done more damage to the US than the “swords of the Nazis, Soviets & terrorists combined.”

In the wake of criticism that followed after that tweet, Rucho sent out this explanation.

Those that tweeted, put your thinking caps back on:”The PEN is mightier than the SWORD.”Edward Bulwar-Lytton,1839. But surely you knew that.